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" I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible. "
Olivia Wilde
Friends
Relationship
Great
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" Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.' "
Olivia Wilde
Art
People
Sad
" Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his. "
Olivia Wilde
Great
Music
Name
" In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird. "
Olivia Wilde
Here
Age
Actress
" A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet. "
Olivia Wilde
Age
Women
Perfect
" Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part. "
Olivia Wilde
Because
Table
You
" I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'. "
Olivia Wilde
People
Relationship
Love
" Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions. "
Olivia Wilde
Time
Writing
Process
" I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend. "
Olivia Wilde
Love
Food
Life
" Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up. "
Olivia Wilde
Parents
School
Bus
" It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow. "
Olivia Wilde
Progress
Daughter
Son
" I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. "
Olivia Wilde
Know
You
Time
" You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care. "
Olivia Wilde
You
Lucky
Medical
" In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations. "
Olivia Wilde
Positive
People
Build
" I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me. "
Olivia Wilde
Me
Abandoned
Grow
" I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.' "
Olivia Wilde
Say
Fat
Feel
" Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in. "
Olivia Wilde
Believe
Elections
Great
" I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo. "
Olivia Wilde
Perfect
Think
Hiking
" Inspiration is the key to everything. "
Olivia Wilde
Inspiration
Everything
Key
" All actors should experience public failure. "
Olivia Wilde
Public
Experience
Failure
" Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition. "
Olivia Wilde
Australia
Competition
Girl
" I love eye makeup. I really like doing a cat eye, playing with liquid liners and different colors of liners, like emerald and deep blues, combining them with black. "
Olivia Wilde
Eye
Love
Colors
" I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself. "
Olivia Wilde
Funny
Heart
Romantic
" Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it. "
Olivia Wilde
Weakness
Experience
Compassion
" In a relationship I'm a very loving person, emotional and sensitive. "
Olivia Wilde
Emotional
Loving
Person
" I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. "
Olivia Wilde
Brunette
Natural
Like
" I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows. "
Olivia Wilde
Water
You
Drink
" If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person. "
Olivia Wilde
Happy Person
Like
Person
" I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night. "
Olivia Wilde
Event
Date
Enjoy
" I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.' "
Olivia Wilde
Someone
Now
Pain
" In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters. "
Olivia Wilde
End
Together
Change